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This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into account, but it also relates the opposition between direct and inverse verbs and clauses to an opposition between deictic values, thereby achieving two advantageous goals: it meaningfully circumvents one of the usual analytic dilemmas, namely whether a given construction is passive or inverse, and it refines our understanding of the cross-linguistic typology of inversion. This framework is applied to the description of the morphosyntax of eleven Amerindian languages (Algonquian: Plains Cree, Miami-Illinois, Ojibwa; Kutenai; Sahaptian: Sahaptin, Nez Perce; Kiowa-Tanoan: Arizona Tewa, Picurís, Southern Tiwa, Kiowa; Mapudungun).

Direction in language. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Indians --- Deixis. --- Languages. --- Direction in language --- Indian languages --- Deixis (Linguistics) --- Indexicals (Semantics) --- Linguistics --- Deixis --- Languages --- Deictic function --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Grammar. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Philology

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Semantics. --- Reference (Linguistics) --- Signification (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Onomasiology --- Semantics --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. --- Reference (Linguistics).

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In Amerindian languages and in many other agglutinative languages, subordination is often a matter of nominalization. In Cholón, a language spoken in North-Peru, this is certainly the case: nominalized forms coincide with subordinate clauses. In this language, a nominalized verb form can also be used as a main predicate. In this paper we study the different subordinate clauses that are formed with nominalizations. We then find out which nominalizations are part of a main predicate, and when this is the case. Keywords: Cholón; subordination; nominalized main predicates; syntactical nominalizati

Indians of South America --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Derivational morphology --- Word formation --- Areal linguistics --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Languages. --- Word formation. --- Variation. --- Derivation --- Morphology --- South America --- Linguistics --- Philology

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